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After F. A. Lindemann, Winston Churchill's scientific adviser, attacked Sir Tizard in 1935, Tizard's secret decision to start a crash program to radar was at stake. In his tirades Tizard, Lindemann proposed Goldberg" alternatives to radar, had an "obsession for mines," Snow...
...Tizard--and radar--were saved two influential scientists on his committee resigned in protest--"a standard English committee maneuver...
...shows, Snow said, how the politics" of the scientific bureaucracy can run counter to the "open of Parliament and public opinion. Lindemann was then Churchill's ally in the anti-Government ranks agitating for defense preparation. Ironically, Churchill succeeded in becoming Air at that time, Lindemann would be headed Tizard's committee, and the radar project would have stopped. if the radar stations had not been Britain would have lost its battle, Snow declared...
...quarrel between the two men on, for after Churchill became Minister, Lindemann was made his eminence" in science, and Tizard out of a job. "There was to be no authority for him in that war." was sent on a mission to the United States, and noted in his diary, was a method of getting a bother- person...
...even out of power, Tizard was to with Lindemann once again before war ended. "This row, the second, climactic row," was over Lindemann's decision to push strategic bomb- Lindemann, now Lord Cherwell, in the Cabinet, sent out a paper gave impressive estimates, of the strategic bombing of low class housing would have...